Unit 8
User Interfaces
(使用者介面)
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PART II: 資料庫設計 (Database Design)
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資料庫問題分析與架構規劃:
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若有一大量資料想利用DBMS建資料庫來管理。第一步要分析問題，找到使用者需求
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實體-關係模型(Entity-Relationship Model,簡稱E-R Model)是一套資料庫的設計工具。我們可以
利用E-R Model分析資料庫問題。它可以把真實世界中複雜的問題中的事物和關係轉化為資料
庫中的資料架構
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由於利用實體-關係模型設計資料庫時, 並不會牽涉到資料庫的操作、儲存方式等複雜的電腦運
作。所以,我們會把心力放在需求分析去規劃想要的資料庫，並以實體-關係圖(E-R Diagram)來
呈現
資料庫的表格正規化:
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實體-關係圖很容易轉化為表格(Tables)，而資料庫就是由許多表格(tables)組成的
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這些表格要正規化(Normalization)才能避免將來操作時的異常現象發生
設計介面增刪查改資料庫:
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如何方便、又有效率的管理存取資料庫是使用者最關心的二個要素
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良好的介面設計，可以讓使用者方便的查詢、方便的新增、方便的刪除、方便的修改的處理資
料庫
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EX.part2.3: User Interface and Authorization
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Design User Interface
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Design user interface, and more
Design your Web Interfaces to Databases
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Design Authorization
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Read authorization - allows reading, but not modification of data.
Insert authorization - allows insertion of new data, but not
modification of existing data.
Update authorization - allows modification, but not deletion of data.
Delete authorization - allows deletion of data
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EX.part2.4: A Comprehensive Report
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撰寫完整報告, 內容應包括
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封面: 題目,組員
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系統分析與設計: 題目介紹, E-R Diagram
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分析探討:
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Reduction E-R Model to Relational Tables
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Checking Normal Forms
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顯示實作畫面, 包括:
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Queries to access your database
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User interface, and more
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程式 Listing
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心得報告
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Due Date: ___月____日 (星期 ?) 23:59:59 前上傳給助教
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Contents of PART II: 資料庫設計
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Unit 6 Database Design and the E-R Model
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Unit 7 Normalization (表格正規化)
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Unit 8 User Interfaces (使用者介面)
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Unit 9 實作範例一:
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Unit 10 實作範例二:
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References:
1. C. J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems, 8th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004.
2. A. Silberschatz, etc., Database System Concepts, 5th edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.
3. J. D. Ullman and J. Widom, A First Course in Database Systems, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2007.
4. Cited papers (講義中提到之參考文獻)
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Outline
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6.1 Overview of the Database Design Process
6.2 The E-R Model
6.3 Constraints
6.4 E-R Diagrams
6.5 E-R Design Issues
6.6 Weak Entity Sets
6.7 Reduction E-R Model to Relational Tables
6.8 Case Study: E-R for Supplier-and-Parts Database
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Application Design and Development
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Application Design and Development
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User Interfaces and Tools
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Web Interfaces to Databases
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Web Fundamentals
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Servlets and JSP
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Building Large Web Applications
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Triggers
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Authorization in SQL
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Application Security
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User Interfaces and Tools
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Most database users do not use a query language like SQL.
 Forms
 Graphical user interfaces
 Report generators
 Data analysis tools (see Chapter 18)
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Many interfaces are Web-based
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Back-end (Web server) uses such technologies as
 Java servlets
 Java Server Pages (JSP)
 Active Server Pages (ASP)
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The World Wide Web
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The Web is a distributed information system based on hypertext.
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Most Web documents are hypertext documents formatted via the HyperText
Markup Language (HTML)
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HTML documents contain
 text along with font specifications, and other formatting instructions
 hypertext links to other documents, which can be associated with regions of the
text.
 forms, enabling users to enter data which can then be sent back to the Web server
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A formatted report
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Web Interfaces to Databases
Why interface databases to the Web?
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Web browsers have become the de-facto standard user
interface to databases
 Enable large numbers of users to access databases from
anywhere
 Avoid the need for downloading/installing specialized code,
while providing a good graphical user interface
 Examples: banks, airline and rental car reservations,
university course registration and grading, an so on.
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Web Interfaces to Database (Cont.)
2.
Dynamic generation of documents
 Limitations of static HTML documents
• Cannot customize fixed Web documents for individual users.
• Problematic to update Web documents, especially if multiple Web
documents replicate data.
 Solution: Generate Web documents dynamically from data stored in a
database.
• Can tailor the display based on user information stored in the
database.
• E.g. tailored ads, tailored weather and local news, …
• Displayed information is up-to-date, unlike the static Web pages
• E.g. stock market information, ..
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Uniform Resources Locators
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In the Web, functionality of pointers is provided by Uniform Resource
Locators (URLs).
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URL example:
http://www.bell-labs.com/topics/book/db-book
 The first part indicates how the document is to be accessed
• “http” indicates that the document is to be accessed using the Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol.
 The second part gives the unique name of a machine on the Internet.
 The rest of the URL identifies the document within the machine.
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The local identification can be:
• The path name of a file on the machine, or
• An identifier (path name) of a program, plus arguments to be passed to the
program
• E.g. http://www.google.com/search?q=silberschatz
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HTML and HTTP
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HTML provides formatting, hypertext link, and image display features.
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HTML also provides input features
• Select from a set of options
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• Pop-up menus, radio buttons, check lists
Enter values
• Text boxes
 Filled in input sent back to the server, to be acted upon by an executable at the
server
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HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) used for communication with the
Web server
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Sample HTML Source Text
<html> <body>
<table border cols = 3>
<tr> <td> A-101 </td> <td> Downtown </td> <td> 500 </td> </tr>
…
</table>
<center> The <i>account</i> relation </center>
<form action=“BankQuery” method=get>
Select account/loan and enter number <br>
<select name=“type”>
<option value=“account” selected> Account
<option> value=“Loan”>
Loan
</select>
<input type=text size=5 name=“number”>
<input type=submit value=“submit”>
</form>
</body> </html>
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Display of Sample HTML Source
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Client Side Scripting and Applets
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Browsers can fetch certain scripts (client-side scripts) or programs along with
documents, and execute them in “safe mode” at the client site
 Javascript
 Macromedia Flash and Shockwave for animation/games
 VRML
 Applets
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Client-side scripts/programs allow documents to be active
 E.g., animation by executing programs at the local site
 E.g. ensure that values entered by users satisfy some correctness checks
 Permit flexible interaction with the user.
• Executing programs at the client site speeds up interaction by avoiding many
round trips to server
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Client Side Scripting and Security
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Security mechanisms needed to ensure that malicious scripts
do not cause damage to the client machine
 Easy for limited capability scripting languages, harder for general
purpose programming languages like Java
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E.g. Java’s security system ensures that the Java applet code
does not make any system calls directly
 Disallows dangerous actions such as file writes
 Notifies the user about potentially dangerous actions, and allows the
option to abort the program or to continue execution.
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Web Servers
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A Web server can easily serve as a front end to a variety of information
services.
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The document name in a URL may identify an executable program, that,
when run, generates a HTML document.
 When a HTTP server receives a request for such a document, it executes the
program, and sends back the HTML document that is generated.
 The Web client can pass extra arguments with the name of the document.
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To install a new service on the Web, one simply needs to create and
install an executable that provides that service.
 The Web browser provides a graphical user interface to the information
service.
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Common Gateway Interface (CGI): a standard interface between web and
application server
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Three-Tier Web Architecture
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Two-Tier Web Architecture
 Multiple levels of indirection have overheads
 Alternative: two-tier architecture
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HTTP and Sessions
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The HTTP protocol is connectionless
 That is, once the server replies to a request, the server closes the connection with the
client, and forgets all about the request
 In contrast, Unix logins, and JDBC/ODBC connections stay connected until the client
disconnects
• retaining user authentication and other information
 Motivation: reduces load on server
• operating systems have tight limits on number of open connections on a machine
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Information services need session information
 E.g. user authentication should be done only once per session
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Solution: use a cookie
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Sessions and Cookies
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A cookie is a small piece of text containing identifying
information
 Sent by server to browser on first interaction
 Sent by browser to the server that created the cookie on further
interactions
• part of the HTTP protocol
 Server saves information about cookies it issued, and can use it
when serving a request
• E.g., authentication information, and user preferences
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Cookies can be stored permanently or for a limited time
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Servlets
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Java Servlet specification defines an API for communication between the
Web server and application program
 E.g. methods to get parameter values and to send HTML text back to client
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Application program (also called a servlet) is loaded into the Web server
 Two-tier model
 Each request spawns a new thread in the Web server
• thread is closed once the request is serviced
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Servlet API provides a getSession() method
 Sets a cookie on first interaction with browser, and uses it to identify session on
further interactions
 Provides methods to store and look-up per-session information
• E.g. user name, preferences, ..
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Example Servlet Code
Public class BankQuery(Servlet extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse result)
throws ServletException, IOException {
String type = request.getParameter(“type”);
String number = request.getParameter(“number”);
…code to find the loan amount/account balance …
…using JDBC to communicate with the database..
…we assume the value is stored in the variable balance
result.setContentType(“text/html”);
PrintWriter out = result.getWriter( );
out.println(“<HEAD><TITLE>Query Result</TITLE></HEAD>”);
out.println(“<BODY>”);
out.println(“Balance on “ + type + number + “=“ + balance);
out.println(“</BODY>”);
out.close ( );
}
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Server-Side Scripting
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Server-side scripting simplifies the task of connecting a database to the Web
 Define a HTML document with embedded executable code/SQL queries.
 Input values from HTML forms can be used directly in the embedded code/SQL queries.
 When the document is requested, the Web server executes the embedded code/SQL
queries to generate the actual HTML document.
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Numerous server-side scripting languages
 JSP, Server-side Javascript, ColdFusion Markup Language (cfml), PHP, Jscript
 General purpose scripting languages: VBScript, Perl, Python
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Improving Web Server Performance
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Performance is an issue for popular Web sites
 May be accessed by millions of users every day, thousands of requests per second at
peak time
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Caching techniques used to reduce cost of serving pages by exploiting
commonalities between requests
 At the server site:
• Caching of JDBC connections between servlet requests
• Caching results of database queries
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• Cached results must be updated if underlying database changes
Caching of generated HTML
 At the client’s network
• Caching of pages by Web proxy
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Triggers
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A trigger is a statement that is executed automatically by the system as a side effect
of a modification to the database.
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To design a trigger mechanism, we must:
 Specify the conditions under which the trigger is to be executed.
 Specify the actions to be taken when the trigger executes.
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Triggers introduced to SQL standard in SQL:1999, but supported even earlier using
non-standard syntax by most databases.
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Trigger Example
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Suppose that instead of allowing negative account balances, the bank deals with
overdrafts by
 setting the account balance to zero
 creating a loan in the amount of the overdraft
 giving this loan a loan number identical to the account number of the overdrawn account
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The condition for executing the trigger is an update to the account relation that
results in a negative balance value.
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Trigger Example in SQL:1999
create trigger overdraft-trigger after update on account
referencing new row as nrow
each row
when nrow.balance < 0
begin atomic
insert into borrower
(select customer-name, account-number
from depositor
where nrow.account-number =
depositor.account-number);
insert into loan values
(n.row.account-number, nrow.branch-name,
– nrow.balance);
update account set balance = 0
where account.account-number = nrow.account-number
end
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Triggering Events and Actions in SQL
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Triggering event can be insert, delete or update
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Triggers on update can be restricted to specific attributes
 E.g. create trigger overdraft-trigger after update of balance on account
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Values of attributes before and after an update can be referenced
 referencing old row as : for deletes and updates
 referencing new row as : for inserts and updates
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Triggers can be activated before an event, which can serve as extra constraints.
E.g. convert blanks to null.
create trigger setnull-trigger before update on r
referencing new row as nrow
for each row
when nrow.phone-number = ‘ ‘
set nrow.phone-number = null
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Statement Level Triggers
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Instead of executing a separate action for each affected row,
a single action can be executed for all rows affected by a
transaction
 Use
for each statement
instead of
for each row
 Use
referencing old table or referencing new table to
refer to temporary tables (called transition tables) containing the
affected rows
 Can be more efficient when dealing with SQL statements that
update a large number of rows
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External World Actions
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We sometimes require external world actions to be triggered on a database
update
 E.g. re-ordering an item whose quantity in a warehouse has become small, or turning
on an alarm light,
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Triggers cannot be used to directly implement external-world actions, BUT
 Triggers can be used to record actions-to-be-taken in a separate table
 Have an external process that repeatedly scans the table, carries out external-world
actions and deletes action from table
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E.g. Suppose a warehouse has the following tables
 inventory (item, level ): How much of each item is in the warehouse
 minlevel (item, level ) : What is the minimum desired level of each item
 reorder (item, amount ): What quantity should we re-order at a time
 orders (item, amount ) : Orders to be placed (read by external process)
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External World Actions (Cont.)
create trigger reorder-trigger after update of amount on inventory
referencing old row as orow, new row as nrow
for each row
when nrow.level < = (select level
from minlevel
where minlevel.item = orow.item)
and orow.level > (select level
from minlevel
where minlevel.item = orow.item)
begin
insert into orders
(select item, amount
from reorder
where reorder.item = orow.item)
end
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Triggers in MS-SQLServer Syntax
create trigger overdraft-trigger on account
for update
as
if inserted.balance < 0
begin
insert into borrower
(select customer-name,account-number
from depositor, inserted
where inserted.account-number =
depositor.account-number)
insert into loan values
(inserted.account-number, inserted.branch-name,
– inserted.balance)
update account set balance = 0
from account, inserted
where account.account-number = inserted.account-number
end
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When Not To Use Triggers
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Triggers were used earlier for tasks such as
 maintaining summary data (e.g. total salary of each department)
 Replicating databases by recording changes to special relations (called change or delta
relations) and having a separate process that applies the changes over to a replica
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There are better ways of doing these now:
 Databases today provide built in materialized view facilities to maintain summary data
 Databases provide built-in support for replication
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Encapsulation facilities can be used instead of triggers in many cases
 Define methods to update fields
 Carry out actions as part of the update methods instead of
through a trigger
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Authorization in SQL (see also Section 4.3)
Forms of authorization on parts of the database:
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Read authorization - allows reading, but not modification of data.
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Insert authorization - allows insertion of new data, but not
modification of existing data.
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Update authorization - allows modification, but not deletion of
data.
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Delete authorization - allows deletion of data
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Authorization (Cont.)
Forms of authorization to modify the database schema:
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Index authorization - allows creation and deletion of indices.
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Resources authorization - allows creation of new relations.
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Alteration authorization - allows addition or deletion of attributes in
a relation.
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Drop authorization - allows deletion of relations.
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Authorization and Views
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Users can be given authorization on views, without being given
any authorization on the relations used in the view definition
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Ability of views to hide data serves both to simplify usage of the
system and to enhance security by allowing users access only to
data they need for their job
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A combination or relational-level security and view-level
security can be used to limit a user’s access to precisely the data
that user needs.
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View Example
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Suppose a bank clerk needs to know the names of the customers of
each branch, but is not authorized to see specific loan information.
 Approach: Deny direct access to the loan relation, but grant access to the view
cust-loan, which consists only of the names of customers and the branches at
which they have a loan.
 The cust-loan view is defined in SQL as follows:
create view cust-loan as
select branchname, customer-name
from borrower, loan
where borrower.loan-number = loan.loan-number
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View Example (Cont.)
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The clerk is authorized to see the result of the query:
select *
from cust-loan
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When the query processor translates the result into a query on the
actual relations in the database, we obtain a query on borrower and
loan.
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Authorization must be checked on the clerk’s query before query
processing replaces a view by the definition of the view.
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Authorization on Views
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Creation of view does not require resources authorization
since no real relation is being created
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The creator of a view gets only those privileges that provide no
additional authorization beyond that he already had.
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E.g. if creator of view cust-loan had only read authorization on
borrower and loan, he gets only read authorization on custloan
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Granting of Privileges
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The passage of authorization from one user to another may be represented by an
authorization graph.
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The nodes of this graph are the users.
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The root of the graph is the database administrator.
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Consider graph for update authorization on loan.
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An edge Ui  Uj indicates that user Ui has granted update authorization on loan to
U1
Uj.
U4
DBA
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U3
U5
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Authorization Grant Graph
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Requirement: All edges in an authorization graph must be part of some path originating with
the database administrator
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If DBA revokes grant from U1:
 Grant must be revoked from U4 since U1 no longer has authorization
 Grant must not be revoked from U5 since U5 has another authorization path from DBA through U2
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Must prevent cycles of grants with no path from the root:
 DBA grants authorization to U7
 U7 grants authorization to U8
 U8 grants authorization to U7
 DBA revokes authorization from U7
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Must revoke grant U7 to U8 and from U8 to U7 since there is no path from DBA to U7 or to
U8 anymore.
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Security Specification in SQL
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The grant statement is used to confer authorization
grant <privilege list>
on <relation name or view name> to <user list>
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<user list> is:
 a user-id
 public, which allows all valid users the privilege granted
 A role (more on this later)
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Granting a privilege on a view does not imply granting any privileges on the
underlying relations.
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The grantor of the privilege must already hold the privilege on the specified item
(or be the database administrator).
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Privileges in SQL
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select: allows read access to relation,or the ability to query using the view
 Example: grant users U1, U2, and U3 select authorization on the branch relation:
grant select on branch to U1, U2, U3
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insert: the ability to insert tuples
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update: the ability to update using the SQL update statement
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delete: the ability to delete tuples.
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references: ability to declare foreign keys when creating relations.
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usage: In SQL-92; authorizes a user to use a specified domain
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all privileges: used as a short form for all the allowable privileges
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Privilege To Grant Privileges
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with grant option: allows a user who is granted a privilege to pass
the privilege on to other users.
 Example:
grant select on branch to U1 with grant option
gives U1 the select privileges on branch and allows U1 to grant this
privilege to others
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Roles
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Roles permit common privileges for a class of users can be specified just once
by creating a corresponding “role”
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Privileges can be granted to or revoked from roles, just like user

Roles can be assigned to users, and even to other roles

SQL:1999 supports roles
create role teller
create role manager
grant select on branch to teller
grant update (balance) on account to teller
grant all privileges on account to manager
grant teller to manager
grant teller to alice, bob
grant manager to avi
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Revoking Authorization in SQL

The revoke statement is used to revoke authorization.
revoke<privilege list>
on <relation name or view name> from <user list> [restrict|cascade]

Example:
revoke select on branch from U1, U2, U3 cascade

Revocation of a privilege from a user may cause other users also to lose that
privilege; referred to as cascading of the revoke.

We can prevent cascading by specifying restrict:
revoke select on branch from U1, U2, U3 restrict
With restrict, the revoke command fails if cascading revokes are required.
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Revoking Authorization in SQL (Cont.)

<privilege-list> may be all to revoke all privileges the revokee may
hold.

If <revokee-list> includes public all users lose the privilege except
those granted it explicitly.

If the same privilege was granted twice to the same user by different
grantees, the user may retain the privilege after the revocation.

All privileges that depend on the privilege being revoked are also
revoked.
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Limitations of SQL Authorization

SQL does not support authorization at a tuple level
 E.g. we cannot restrict students to see only (the tuples storing) their own grades

With the growth in Web access to databases, database accesses come primarily from application
servers.

End users don't have database user ids, they are all mapped to the same database user id

All end-users of an application (such as a web application) may be mapped to a single database
user

The task of authorization in above cases falls on the application program, with no support from
SQL
 Benefit: fine grained authorizations, such as to individual tuples, can be implemented by the
application.
 Drawback: Authorization must be done in application code, and may be dispersed all over
an application
 Checking for absence of authorization loopholes becomes very difficult since it requires
reading large amounts of application code
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Audit Trails

An audit trail is a log of all changes
(inserts/deletes/updates) to the database along with
information such as which user performed the change,
and when the change was performed.

Used to track erroneous/fraudulent updates.

Can be implemented using triggers, but many database
systems provide direct support.
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Application Security

Data may be encrypted when database authorization
provisions do not offer sufficient protection.

Properties of good encryption technique:
 Relatively simple for authorized users to encrypt and decrypt data.
 Encryption scheme depends not on the secrecy of the algorithm
but on the secrecy of a parameter of the algorithm called the
encryption key.
 Extremely difficult for an intruder to determine the encryption key.
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Encryption (Cont.)

Data Encryption Standard (DES) substitutes characters and rearranges their order on the basis
of an encryption key which is provided to authorized users via a secure mechanism. Scheme is
no more secure than the key transmission mechanism since the key has to be shared.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a new standard replacing DES, and is based on the
Rijndael algorithm, but is also dependent on shared secret keys

Public-key encryption is based on each user having two keys:
 public key – publicly published key used to encrypt data, but cannot be used to decrypt data
 private key -- key known only to individual user, and used to decrypt data.
Need not be transmitted to the site doing encryption.
Encryption scheme is such that it is impossible or extremely hard to decrypt data given only the
public key.

The RSA public-key encryption scheme is based on the hardness of factoring a very large
number (100's of digits) into its prime components.
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Authentication

Password based authentication is widely used, but is susceptible to sniffing on a
network

Challenge-response systems avoid transmission of passwords
 DB sends a (randomly generated) challenge string to user
 User encrypts string and returns result.
 DB verifies identity by decrypting result
 Can use public-key encryption system by DB sending a message encrypted using user’s
public key, and user decrypting and sending the message back

Digital signatures are used to verify authenticity of data
 E.g. use private key (in reverse) to encrypt data, and anyone can verify authenticity by using
public key (in reverse) to decrypt data. Only holder of private key could have created the
encrypted data.
 Digital signatures also help ensure nonrepudiation: sender
cannot later claim to have not created the data
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Digital Certificates

Digital certificates are used to verify authenticity of public keys.

Problem: when you communicate with a web site, how do you know if you are talking with
the genuine web site or an imposter?
 Solution: use the public key of the web site
 Problem: how to verify if the public key itself is genuine?

Solution:
 Every client (e.g. browser) has public keys of a few root-level certification authorities
 A site can get its name/URL and public key signed by a certification authority: signed document
is called a certificate
 Client can use public key of certification authority to verify certificate
 Multiple levels of certification authorities can exist. Each certification authority
• presents its own public-key certificate signed by a
•
higher level authority, and
Uses its private key to sign the certificate of other web sites/authorities
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EX.part2.3: User Interface and Authorization
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Design User Interface
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
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Design user interface, and more
Design your Web Interfaces to Databases
…
Design Authorization

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Read authorization - allows reading, but not modification of data.
Insert authorization - allows insertion of new data, but not
modification of existing data.
Update authorization - allows modification, but not deletion of data.
Delete authorization - allows deletion of data
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EX.part2.4: A Comprehensive Report
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撰寫完整報告, 內容應包括

封面: 題目,組員

系統分析與設計: 題目介紹, E-R Diagram

分析探討:
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Reduction E-R Model to Relational Tables

Checking Normal Forms

顯示實作畫面, 包括:

Queries to access your database

User interface, and more

程式 Listing

心得報告
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Due Date: ___月____日 (星期 ?) 23:59:59 前上傳給助教
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